We've had this before, I put the recipe here. It's a good thing to have when you're stretching your food budget. The nuts give it some protein and we use Barilla Plus pasta because I worry the kids don't get enough protein.
Here are pictures from the process.
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Broccoli before steaming. Don't steam too long if you're cooking for the Summers or noses will turn up.
Steam until just bright green. Best.
Pine Nuts. Max does not like walnuts and cried when he thought these were walnuts. But gladly ate them once I said they were pine nuts.
Sauteing the garlic, pine nuts, basil and salt and pepper while the pasta cooks and the broccoli steams.
Toss it all together and eat.
Logan: Ravenous after T-Ball practice, could have gnawed on a shoe.
Melissa: Love this, I love everything.
Madison: "I could live off this. Put some in my lunch tomorrow please."
Max: "WAAAAAA I don't like garlic!" Me: "Okay it's just broccoli pasta." Him: "Okay....wait I hate walnuts! WAAAAAA!" Me: "No those are pine nuts." Him: "I love this, I'm so glad it doesn't have garlic."
BUT IT DID HAVE GARLIC! I WIN!!!!!
Classic! I know you don't get many comments on this page, but I think it's totally great! Both education and hilarious. Keep em coming.
Posted by: Tessie | May 14, 2007 at 03:55 PM
Oh, I made this from the last time you put it up! Only we didn't have pine nuts so I used sunflower seeds. And added chicken (my husband wants HIGH protein meals). We all really liked it, thank you for sharing it!
Posted by: Tina | May 14, 2007 at 08:29 PM
I make a pasta almost identical to this one...The only difference is that I add rosemary when sauteeing (sp?) the garlic and add fresh grated parmesan cheese at the end. I know your family hates all things yummy so maybe you could take out the rosemary but leave the cheese, especially if you worry about protein. Good luck!
Posted by: Amanda | May 15, 2007 at 02:12 PM
I made this last night and it was a huge hit. We put our own grated parmesan on at the table. My son was dubious about the shreds of basil (mysterious green things = bad) until I pointed out it was from the plant he waters himself and magically, it was okay.
Posted by: CinAA | May 18, 2007 at 11:25 AM
My entire family just loved your recipe!!! 4 stars! I substitued rice for the pasta, asparagus for the brocolli, ginger for the garlic and walnuts (sorry MAX...) for the pine nuts. It was lovely and definitely a keeper.
(Don't you gals just hate inane recipe feedback comparing apples to oranges...)
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I knew I was going to have to make pasta last night (forgot to pull out meat to thaw for the day) and found this on your site! I didn't have broccoli so I substituted green beans and asparagus. This was delicious! My husband loved too. Thanks!
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